Adams Papers Documentary Editing Project

FAIN: RQ-50205-06

Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA 02215-3631)
C. James Taylor (Project Director: November 2005 to April 2011)

Preparation and publication of volumes 8 and 9 of the Family Correspondence and to begin work on volume 10. (36 months)

The Adams Papers Documentary Editing Project is a comprehensive edition of the diaries, letters, official records, public writings, and literary miscellanies contained in the Adams Papers collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, supplemented by Adams documents in other collections and archives. The project focuses on three generations of Adamses: John Adams, Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, and their families.